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A New Era in International Relations -- likelihood of war among the major powers fades
The United Nations -- the founding, Roosevelt's hopes denied and the veto
Victors against the Defeated -- retributions, expropriations, occupations
The Media and Tokyo Rose -- aroused passions against a fictitious enemy
The UN and Independence Movements -- Asia and Africa to the early 1960s
Cold War: 1945-49 -- Stalin, Europe, the U.S. and revolution in China
The Korean War -- occupation, China intervenes, negotiations
Cold War: 1953-60 -- communism and the Eisenhower years
Cold War: the Kennedy Years -- from the Bay of Pigs to assassination
The Vietnam War -- from Diem to the war's end, participant opinions and lessons
Cambodian Genocide -- the Khmer Rouge 1975-79
End of the Cold War and the Soviet Union -- from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
Latin America Economic Overview, to the 1960s -- population growth and underdeveloped resources
Argentina from Juan and Eva Peron to the Disappeared -- 1943 to military rule, Falklands War and beyond to 1988
Brazil from 1945 to the Overthrow of Goulart in 1964 -- another military coup but a thriving economy
The Dominican Republic, Trujillo Regime and overthrow of Juan Bosch -- President Johnson intervenes
Batista, Castro and Che Guevara -- Castro gains power; Che dies in Bolivia
Chile, from Democracy to Dictatorship -- the overthrow of Allende and rule by Pinochet
Nicaragua, the Somozas and Sandinistas, to 1990 -- the Marxist Sandinistas overthrow the Somozas
Civil War in El Salvador -- military rule, violence, civil war, negotiations and compromise
Guatemala, Unrest and Civil War -- dictatorship, reform, U.S. intervention and the Armas regime
The United States and Equal Rights, 1947-65 -- the human rights movement
The Sixties and Seventies from Berkeley to Woodstock -- Berkeley, the Panthers, dissipation
Failed Radicals in Europe -- unrest in France, Germany, Italy
Democracy and Dictatorship in Greece -- to 1974
Yugoslavia Disintegrates -- 1919 to the war in Kosovo
Japan, Hunger, New Attitudes and Mishima -- Japan emerging from war and humiliation
China from Mao to Deng Xiaoping -- from collective agriculture to the capitalist road
Indonesia and the Great Slaughter -- Sukarno loses power, 1965 to 1967
India and Pakistan -- Democratic India. Untouchables. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Africa into the Nineties -- from the 1960s to 1994
Jews and Arabs from WW2 to the 1967 (Six-Day) War -- Israel, Suez, Muslim Brotherhood, Qutb, Faisal
Israel and the Middle East to 1979 -- West Bank occupation, Yom Kipper War, terror, PLO, Camp David, Anwar Sadat
The Iranian Revolution -- the Shah against dissent, victory for Islamic reactionaries
The Middle East, 1979-2000 -- the Siege of Mecca, intefadas, to the attack on the U.S.S. Cole
Saddam Hussein and Wars to 1991 -- Saddam's rise, war with Iran, Kuwait and military defeat
Iraq to September 1993 -- conflict with Britain and the Clinton administration; the Bush administration and war
Gaddafi: 1969-2011 -- background, coup, political and economic philosophy, and rule
Postwar Welfare State to Thatcher and Reagan -- economic policies in Britain and the United States
Other European Welfare States to 1988 -- Switzerland and others move ahead of the U.S. in per capita GDP
Japan, Economic Recovery and Welfare to 1988 -- Japan, generous with welfare, overtakes European economies
Economic Progress in East Asia and Australia to 1988 -- Singapore, Korea, Taiwan and Australia
Post Soviet Union to Clinton and Bush -- Fukuyama's end of histosry and tax policies in the United States
China's Socialist Market Economy -- capitalism guided for "the people" by the China's Communist Party
Financial Crisis in Argentina -- conservative mismanagement, Carlos Menem's failures, default and recovery
Financial Crisis in Japan -- a bubble bursts in late 1980s, a lost decade and recovery in 2003
Obama versus Republicans -- opposing ideologies, the 2008 elections the stimulus debate
Bailouts, Necessary or Not? -- conflicting opinion
Greece and Debt -- the story from the 1980s to 2010
Evolution, Science and Biology -- up from Charles Darwin
Science and Philosophy -- limits to knowing, philosophy of science, the mind and matter connection
When does Life Begin? -- soul, matter, time.
Common Sense and Words -- clarity and shaky abstractions.
Richard Dawkins, Atheism and Language -- atheism versus agnosticism versus theism
Truth, Science and the Enlightenment -- postmodernism and the discrediting of science after the French Revolution
Linguistics Wars -- Chomsky, Lakoff and Pinker
A Few Philosophers, beginning with Albert Camus -- goes on to Sartre, Arendt, Heidegger, Popper and A.J. Ayer
Judge Not -- a modern interpretation of commonly misinterpreted ancient Christian wisdom
Inventing Morality -- the individual, the Roman Catholic view, moral relativism, government and democracy
Buckley, Rand, Kirk and Strauss -- conservative intellectuals from the 1950s
Freedom and Theories of State Power -- the state as master of conflicts and compromise
Genetics and Human history -- Has the human gene pool been declining?
Religions and Freedom after 1945 -- Japan, Communist states, and new worship
Change versus Religious Conservatism in India -- declining traditional Hinduism
What Do Jews Believe? -- Fundamentalism, ultra-orthodox, orthodox and reform Judaism
Islam into the 21st Century -- democracy, violence, divisions and fundamentals
Jim Jones and His People's Church -- to Jones' cool-aid at Jonestown in Guyana.
Trends in Christianity -- radio, television, non-denominational celebritihood, theology, the Apocalypse
Faith and Justifications -- belief without argument, the effect argument, and recent debates
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